Growing pains
Kenya is paying farmers to plant cotton again. Its mills, power prices and trade rules have yet to catch up.
Spun Elsewhere
West Africa supplies a tenth of the world's traded cotton and processes almost none of it. A wave of investment…
Rwanda’s $452 Coffee Lot Tops Africa’s October Price Board as Ivorian Growers Get the Least
A single prize-winning batch of Rwandan specialty coffee sold for $452 a kilo, showing the gulf between specialty and mainstream…
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The Boran Bet: Inside Kenya’s Push to Turn Livestock Into a Global Export Franchise
Kenya's meat industry is worth close to 400 billion shillings a year, and just under five percent of that value…
What Exactly Is Kenya’s New Infrastructure Fund?
On July 8, Kenya's Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi gazetted the appointment of the fund's first Board of Directors, naming…
Africa’s 2026 Listings: Who Is Raising Capital, and Who Is Selling?
African companies and governments have completed or announced 15 equity listings this year, and 14 of them are on African…
Four Roads to 700,000 Barrels
Construction is set to begin this month on the Dangote Group's Lamu refinery, a 700,000-barrel-a-day complex that would be East…
Can Kenya’s National Infrastructure Fund Survive Losing Two-Thirds of Its Capital?
Kenya's National Infrastructure Fund, the vehicle President William Ruto's government created in March 2026 to mobilise up to Sh5 trillion…
Kenyans’ Average Digital Loan Rises 17% to $125.80 Led by Business Restocking
The average loan grew modestly, but the number of loans surged. Digital loans rose 71% over the year to 6.74…